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Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika +3 more
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Introduction: The flow of refugees towards Europe over the past decade has placed increased demands on the health care services. A significant proportion of refugees have been subjected to torture involving their mouth or teeth, still the importance of ...
A. C. Høyvik +3 more
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Music as Torture / Music as Weapon
One of the most startling aspects of musical culture in the post-Cold War United States is the systematic use of music as a weapon of war. First coming to mainstream attention in 1989, when US troops blared loud music in an effort to induce Panamanian ...
Suzanne G. Cusick
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Torture is designed to silence, render powerless, oppress and terrify not just the individual torture survivor but the whole society where the act of torture occurs.
Kolbassia Haoussou, Katy Robjant
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Threats are a common feature of detention and interrogation settings and have long been regarded as a routine procedure. Despite their prevalence and propensity to amount to ill-treatment and torture, threats have not been systematically and thoroughly ...
P. Pérez‐Sales
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Hostage-taking as torture: Alice Edwards’ report to the UN Human Rights Council
The report A/HRC/58/55 entitled Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: hostage-taking as torture, prepared by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, was submitted to the Human Rights Council
Berta Soley, Pau Pérez-Sales
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Introduction: Literature about treatment of survivors of torture tends to focus on counseling and primary medical care. There are fewer published articles about the utilization of physiotherapy at treatment centers for survivors of torture and other ...
Laura Janet Pizer Gueron +1 more
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Background Globally, violence disproportionately affects young people, leading to injury, hospitalisation, death, social dysfunction, and poor mental wellbeing.
Nishant Mehra +4 more
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Torture without Torturers [PDF]
What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence?
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Protocol on Medico-Legal Documentation of Sleep Deprivation
This Protocol originates from a joint project regarding documentation of psychological torture initiated by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI), REDRESS and DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) in 2015 after the ...
Pau Pérez-Sales +4 more
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